Quotes on Honoring Memorial Day

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?